About Us
InfraNEDs emerged in 2023, volunteer-led, responding to a growing need to bring informed diversity to Real Asset Boards.
The co-founders, Dr. Patricia Rodrigues Jenner and Julia Gregory are well-known and business-savvy trailblazers and thought leaders in the Real Assets community. Together they launched the InfraNEDs initiative in the form of a circle of like-minded women NEDs to debate the issues of the day in the sector and serve as a sounding board for each other’s ideas.
Within a few months of the launch in 2023, InfraNEDs grew organically to more than 100 experienced leaders in real assets and InfraNEDs gained tremendous traction. It became obvious that many highly accomplished women in the sector aspire to build a focused and mutually supportive community where they can address the sector’s challenges through dialogue, identifying current trends, and generating value with collaborative recommendations and advocacy.
InfraNEDs have expertise in operation, regulation, policy, construction management, project management, stakeholder management, valuation, debt financing, equity investment, and private and listed fund and company management, across both the public and private sectors. Sector focus makes the InfraNEDs network very complementary to other business networks.
InfraNEDs seeks to actively collaborate with other networks that share the agenda of improving informed diversity and thus the quality of decision-making and governance in the boardroom. For example, both co-founders have long been UK Women on Boards members. Research by Women on Boards (“Hidden Talent” 2023) showed that just 2.3% of FTSE500 companies’ board members have held positions and expertise outside of CEO, CFO, or Company Secretarial functions.
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